Abdur Razzak Molla (31 July 1944 – 11 April 2025) was an Indian politician who served as Minister for Land and Land Reforms in the Left Front Ministry in

West Bengal West Bengal (; Bengali language, Bengali: , , abbr. WB) is a States and union territories of India, state in the East India, eastern portion of India. It is situated along the Bay of Bengal, along with a population of over 91 million inhabi ...

Background

The son of Sk. Sahebul Haque Molla, a peasant who cultivated paddy and vegetables, he was attracted to the

Communist movement Communist Movement (in Spanish: ''Movimiento Comunista'', in Basque: ''Mugimendu Komunista'', in Catalan: ''Moviment Comunista'', in Galician: ''Movemento Comunista'', in Asturian: ''Movimientu Comunista'') was a political party in Spain ...

while a college student and started his political career on the peasant front. Their family migrated from

Memari Memari is a town and a municipality in Purba Bardhaman district in the Indian state of West Bengal. Geography Location Memari is located at . It has an average elevation of 25 metres (82 feet). Urbanisation 95.54% of the populati ...

Purba Bardhaman district Purba Bardhaman district is in the Indian state of West Bengal. Its headquarters is in Bardhaman. It was formed on 7 April 2017 after the division of the previous Bardhaman district. Great revolutionary Rash Behari Bose was born in village Suba ...

. Mollah's grandfather Md. Arif Sarkar was a popular doctor in

. The philanthropic spirit was first introduced to him by his grandfather. Rezzak Molla died on 11 April 2025, at the age of 80.

Political career

Abdur Razzak Molla was elected from the

Canning Purba Canning Purba Assembly constituency is a Vidhan Sabha, Legislative Assembly constituency of South 24 Parganas district in the Indian States and territories of India, State of West Bengal. Overview As per order of the Delimitation Commission o ...

seat from 1977 to 2011. He was one of the few ministers to retain his seat in the 2011 elections. In February 2014, the CPI(M) West Bengal State Committee issued a note expelling Razzak Molla from the party for his anti-party activities. He formed a new political party- Bharatiya Naybichar Party (BNP) on 18 October 2014. However, Mollah was expelled from the BNP for establishing relationship with Mamata Banerjee and TMC in Jan 2016 and he joined hands with

Trinamool Congress The All India Trinamool Congress (; AITC), simply known as Trinamool Congress, is an Indian political party that is mainly influential in the Federated state, state of West Bengal. It was founded by Mamata Banerjee on 1 January 1998 as a Lis ...

officially in Feb 2016. He was made a candidate for the

from Bhangar for the 2016 assembly elections.

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